For the purpose of this study, the resulting continuous variable (wealth index) was recoded as tertiles with categories labelled poor, middle and rich.
This insatiable, competition-fueled appetite for stuff we don't need shackles us to "continuous, objectless wealth-creation — something that did not exist in earlier times, and that remains, in some sense, peculiar to capitalism".
There is a continuous distribution amongst wealth groups by livestock holdings, but the distribution of wealth groups by land was bimodal: households owned either a lot of land or very little, with few households in the middle category.
The variables investigated were maternal age (continuous), maternal education, wealth index (poor or non-poor), antenatal care attendance, parity, previous stillbirth, antepartum hemorrhage in pregnancy, hypertensive disorder during pregnancy, and small weight-for-gestational age.
Wealth index scores are continuous, standardized for comparability with wealth index scores in each country's DHS, and indicate greater affluence as the score increases.
Their shows in the early 1990s would often be three hours of semi-improvised, continuous music featuring a wealth of triggered samples, voices, and pre-recorded tracks which were barely identifiable as the original piece.
The index places individual households on a continuous scale of relative wealth.
For continuous focal variable (household wealth), we tested this using bi-serial correlations.
His profile, which is in large part a result of his wealth, also attracted continuous media coverage.
In our analyses, we used the baseline wealth index as a continuous measure as well as a categorical measure, by creating wealth tertiles (very poor, poor, and less poor) from the baseline wealth index.
